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[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Bl@ck:
Under Root Helper there's an option called "HomeHelper on demand", turn it off.

btw i still have this silly redraw issue, w/e i'll just ignore it and reset the phone in the weekend.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] dainese01:
Hey guys.

Its nice to be back with VR since my HTC Hero!

I seem to have lost root access. Is this a known issue?

nandroid

Full wipe.

Flash

wipe cache

wipe dalvik cache

boot - quick and fast, looks great, no root when trying to do a titanium backup.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] CamoGeko:
Install superuser from the market...

Communicated from a Galaxy far far away via an XDA premium neurotransmitter while DJ'ing on The Enterprise. :D
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] dainese01:
Thanks mate.

I already did and made no effect (I read the first page haha. not a complete noob)

. I might reboot though. I didn't reboot.

Edit.

Installed Superuser from market and rebooted SGS2.

All ok.

Thanks!

Glad to be onboard again
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
Welcome back :)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] CamoGeko:
Nice to hear it's all working, and welcome back villain. I actually have forgot to type "reboot your phone" at the end of my above post. :p

Communicated from a Galaxy far far away via an XDA premium neurotransmitter while DJ'ing on The Enterprise. :D
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] WiGgLr:
Interesting... I have this setting on but I'm not getting the redraws... I only have the redraws if I switch on the HomeHelper Component in the other advanced menu
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] newHere:):
i made a Phone.apk with Noise Reduction disabled by default :)

for those who suffers from the echo problem on the other party of the call.

the credit for this fix goes to the user "bazzag"

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1372718

enjoy it (as i do) ;)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] edd-1988:
please i need the answer
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] serrov91:
There aren't any best ROM, every one has its goodness. You have to try them by yourself, one by one, then you will get your answer. A good ROM for someone might not necessarily fit your needs. Good luck :)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] mynamesteve:
here you go :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmvCpR45LKA
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
Damn, I was looking for rick roll, but it wasn't to be :p

Never going to give you up...

Always coming from take me down...
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] chiggah:
if im coming from CM7 to VR 3.0, do I need to flash to a stock samsung rom from Odin first ?

Or can i just flash VR 3.0 straight from CWM ?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] AvRS:
Flash from CWM but do a data wipe first otherwise you're highly likely to have issues.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
This.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] bricked_tab:
Hi Pulser, thanks for the great firmware.

Can the firmware (or any firmware) make a difference on the audio quality coming through the usb port? I just got the official car dock and the audio quality coming from the built in port is very tinny. The headphone port is heaps better but it kinda defeats the purpose of the dock if I use that. I've ruled out the charger static issue.

Thanks in advance for any help.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Bl@ck:
I know, it was like that for me too last week... damn ADW EX :P

btw yesterday i got an update for widgetlocker from amazon appstore, thought the problem would solve instead i'm getting a lot more launcher refreshs if i enable homehelper.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Entropy512:
Kernel might make a difference... Maybe it will, maybe it won't.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
Yeah rom won't likely change it
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] nishant1014:
Pulsar can I flash cf root kp2 on d rom?

Wanna try ics!
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] AvRS:
CF-Root KP2 won't give you ICS you'll need to download the leaked ROM from the general section. Just make a backup and you'll be able to come back when you realise its an alpha leak and not for daily use.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] nishant1014:
Thanks :)

I just wanna c how different it is from 2.3 *curious* ;)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
I have booted ICS. Impressed enough I'll re-group with Nath tomorrow and see what needs done to actually make it good :)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] BatTusAi:
Anyone having problem with samsung input method with 3/4? When you type, only the number came out? How to solve this?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] nishant1014:
Yipeeee :D :D

then ill what till yu work yur magic & release VR based on ics :D
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] killall:
You've really gone and done it now...this thread will be spammed to death by ICS Noobs...:p
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] nishant1014:
Im d 1st one at dat :P :P
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] chiggah:
Hey guys I want to achieve this either the IceCreamSandwich status bar icons theme or darky's battery icon and change the wifi, 3g, silent icons to Green colour on my VillainROM 3.0

What do I need to install ?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] AvRS:
Just please get rid of the annoying orange screen border when you make a selection ;)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] mynamesteve:
Apparently you can mate ;)

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=20333449&postcount=7

not tried it tho
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] AvRS:
Thanks mate :)

I've not tried the build yet I'm preferring to stay with GB till we get something more official :D
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] mynamesteve:
Not tried it myself ether mate waiting for a slightly more progressed build to pop up. Just trolling the noobs in here till that happens.

lol conspiracy :D
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] AvRS:
Edited to make less gay ;)

Yeah it definitely passes the time lol
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
Easy :)

It's a setting in development tools app :)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
Lol I'm intrigued now :D

Edit history is a wonderful gem :D

Lol, it wasn't too bad :p I was expecting worse :D
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] AvRS:
Haha wasn't that interesting but will choose words better in future lol
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] chiggah:
whats a good kernel for this mod ? currently on siyah but drained 50% after 10 hours
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
Hmm that's quite a bit. Did you use better battery stats to look for a drain cause?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] chiggah:
i'll give it a day or 2 to settle. was playing scrabble with a friend for a bit early, but can't have drained that much :S

On siyah, which governor should i use ? smartassv2 or ondemand ? its set to default ondemand
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Karpfenhai:
Im my experience this kernel fits best to VR, Siyah is nice but consumes to much battery, if u want to stay w/ Siyah, use lulzactive or smartassv2 but never mix governors in different profiles, could cause DSoD (Deep Sleep of Death) so dont blame the rom if it happens ;)

Good luck!

BTW; Modem KI4 or KL1 are working flawless with the mentioned kernel!
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] AvRS:
Sounds like wakelocks so as Pulsar suggested use BBS. I was using Siyah 2.2 with VR3 and had over 80% left on average in a 15 hour day. At one point after 5 hours I still had 100% so it's not a kernel problem. I'm now using 2.5.1 currently with my HyperDroid setup due to having lockups for no real reason during opening apps and simple things. So far really good battery and last night had 75% after 16 hours. It's all down to use but yesterday was with using it to listen to music and a bit of browsing on top of a couple of phone calls and texting.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Bl@ck:
Good news and bad news.

Good News: I think i was able to fix that silly self-refresh issue in TWLauncher, now is working fine w/o issue since this morning, WidgetLocker is enabled and working great w/o HomeHelper.

Bad News: You've to deleted TWLauncher data to reset it to stock values and start from scratch.

Looks like something corrupted in TWLauncher data and it was force refreshing itself everytime i unlocked the phone or used lots of apps w/o going back to the homescreen.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] gargon01:
Has development stopped on this rom? I know pulser doesn't like to update after every new revision, but there must have been some system improvements made since the last rom release....or not? Holla!

Sent from my GT-I9100 via trained chimp
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] AvRS:
If you've been around on this ROM for a while you'd know only worthwhile updates are made so by there not being any it's fair enough to take your answer from that. If there were system improvements there would've been an update. Lets just look forward to ICS.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
Nah, it's not stopped...

Just because there's no public updates doesn't mean I'm not doing anything...

Nath had some ICS stuff, but we decided it's not ready
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] gwak:
It still works well for me. Pointless updating unless its broken. Great work pulser.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] poofish:
By scrabble, do you actually mean scrabble? or words with friends? because words with friends has been known to cause ungodly battery drain due to it being very badly optimized.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Entropy512:
There are only two real issues I know of with the ROM, and both of them are common to all recent ROMs for I9100, and one only affects I777 users who Hellraised, the other (tethering settings permissions issues) have a workaround that only needs to be done once per ROM install.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

There are a couple of kernel fixes that might be beneficial, but most of the currently maintained kernels over here are a little too aggressive and sacrifice some stability and consistency.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] AJ.Rockwell:
This is the first ROM I ever flashed and I'm staying with it. Everything is super smooth, never had a single issue... Looking forward to the ICS release (but take your time, having 3.0 is more than enough for now :-). Keep up the good work guys!!

Sent from outer space by aliens on tapatalk using SGS2
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
Good stuff :) Nice to see that people still find this really reliable :)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] AJ.Rockwell:
Well yeah, at first I was like WTF "just" a 3.0 beta? How many issues are there gonna be gief update ASAP... and now I see that android updating is really a matter of needed functionality/serious issues. After consistent usage and no gamebreaking elements, it's a joy to have.

PS If I can have a question... I wondered why is the ROM ~300MB while some other ROMs are about 100 meg-ish? Not that I would complain, I've got absolutely no problem with that, I'm just curious :)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Karpfenhai:
Just read further and you will know it ;)

This Rom is not just an overworked framework with some modded parts and themes, its fully deoxed, means all sources have been recompiled, that is why its as big as a stock rom from samsung.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] n00n00:
All my friends who have s2's, I always point to and help flash VR :)

Very nice rom! :)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
I've not stripped out samsung apps. 100 MB ROMs will be AOSP or CM based. They don't have any of the Samsung Touchwiz apps.

Samsung did a pretty decent job of Touchwiz on this phone, and a lot of people want to keep it :)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] AJ.Rockwell:
Okay thank you very much for the answer guys!! ^^
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] globalgpj:
Pulser,

I like your philosophy on this, as VR3.0 works like a charm.

I am currently using the latest Wifi Tether v3.1-beta8 and it seems to be working fine without issues. I had some problems connecting with v2.7, not sure about others.

Will you be installing the latest version of this app with your new release?

VR 3.0 comes with v2.7?

http://android-wifi-tether.googlecode.com
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
I don't install that app in VR... Perhaps you got it elsewhere?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] globalgpj:
Your right...sorry !

Well, just for the record, the latest version works well with VR3.0, where some previous versions didn't ! :)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
No worries

Good to hear it works :)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] BatTusAi:
Does anyone have problems with samsng 3/4 keyboard that only numeric keypad works? u cant type letters but numbers only no matter what i do.. please reply anyone
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] n00n00:
I fixed this by flashing a CSC from intratechs firmware page
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] zzloo:
been using VR for a month or two. it works fine and fast but recently i found that my phone did auto shut down quite a few times
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
what kernel are you using?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] globalgpj:
Can anyone shed some light on this problem I am having.

I get a call and when I pick up my phone from the desk, it hangs up everytime. :mad:

The only setting that I can think of, is that I have the proximity sensor set to reject a call when I turn over the phone.

Any clues ?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] erliang89:
first boot is taking more than half an hour for me. Is it alright?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Karpfenhai:
Have you wiped your former rom? At least wipe cache and dalvik cach

before

flashing the new rom!

Good luck!
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] BatTusAi:
Which CSC? Im here in south africa. Can I flash any CSC or it should be the KI3 CSC?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Sideburnt:
Has anyone else experienced an issue with in-call volume?

I tried to turn the incall volume up using the volume buttons and the volume didn't scale upwards or downwards this was yesterday, I tested this again today and this seems to be the same issue.

I'm using the latest beta Speedmod Kernel and a KI3 Radio.

I use Bluetooth headset for music but not in call, the bluetooth was off both times.

I don;t currently have any app controlling my volume levels apart from stock, no EQ setting either from any music app.

EDIT: I thought I should add that I have removed noise cancelling using VR Tweaks
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] n00n00:
I'm from the philippines and what I used is MultiCSC OXXKI2. Worked for me.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] frottage:
ICS

any news on a decent ICS leak from Samsung ?

I thought we were at one stage anticipating something before Xmas
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] AvRS:
Only the unfinished KP alphas at the mo but apparently we may get something in January as one article said the timeline was just after Xmas for the S2 with the note to follow. Just have to wait and see but current alphas aren't worth it.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] onebyside:
full wipe and she boots nice and quick
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] serrov91:
Went for a week with CheckRom and ended up back to VillainRom... CheckRom did feel faster and had a better battery life (definitely not placebo effects) but had a couples of random reboots... VillainRom is so stable, I couldn't live one more day without it!
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
Interesting...

Might be that the new bases are not 100% solid... I just can't bring myself to needlessly update, given some of my uptime records :D

BTW, have a play with kernels, that will help battery. Hopefully without compromising stability :)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] AvRS:
Doc said over on the HyperDroid thread that KK5 isn't the best of bases so far or something along those lines and they're looking to move off it soon. This is the longest standing and probably the most stable of ROM's available so there's no real reason to update. Only thing about the older base is compatibility with some themes but I think theme's can be a sacrifice of quality. Lets hope the new year brings some ICS news for us and then VR4 can be the talk of the town again ;)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Karpfenhai:
@ Pulser, maybe you can have a look onto the Phenomenal kernel, im using it w/ ur Rom since weeks, no issues at all, no lags or reboots(my record 15 Days), the Batterylife is awesome, its a modded Speedmod kernel with embedded voltages, no changes possible, IMHO it could fit in your philosophy of making roms, The new 2.0 Version is fresh but working flawless so far..

Link -> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1351191
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] serrov91:
Thank you for the tips... Indeed, I've been playing around with different combinations with Siyah, Speedmod and CF-Root.. in terms of performance and battery life, I feel like to be a Siyah permanent user now.. =)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Karpfenhai:
But Siyah consumes much more battery than Speedmod.. at least for me,, but i don't wanna argue its everybody's choice ;) Merry X-mas for all who celebrate it ;)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] serrov91:
I agree with you, but in my opinion the performance offered by Siyah's kernel is worth a bit more draining =) For what I have subjectively experienced , not a big difference of battery usage though...
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] ajpettit:
a christmassy tale

rightio,

so let me tell you a story, a story of joy and happiness and sadness and sorrow!

so off i went home to parttake in the ritual slaughter of turkey and sprouts with an unlocked sgs2 with villainrom and a hero with a nonresponsive screen as well as a desire with and odd issue (that's another story, maybe for easter). So the plan was my UK three sim in the hero or desire for calls and texts from the uk and a new local sim in the sgs2 for data and messing about. Flying out of the uk i was watching a few old episodes of 30 rock while in flight mode and duly arrived in the magical land that is ireland (my home) got myself a payg sim for the sgs2 and did the switcheroo of sims now i seem to have stumbled along an issue i can't turn off wifi or data on the sgs2 even flight mode turns itself off and everything is turned back on again. Added to that my room is the furthest from the router so wifi being intermittent i am blessed to see 3g turn to wifi turn to h turn to h+ turn to wifi and so on thus absolutly kaning my battery even when charging!

Any ideas as to why i can't toggle data or wifi?

oh and happy xmas everyone!

heres a video showing what i mean

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGsu-OxF23g
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Karpfenhai:
Change Kernel and or Radio, i had the same issue with "stock" Villainrom here in Germany!
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
I may well take a look...
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] ajpettit:
figured it out it was theft alert
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Entropy512:
I'm getting the impression the UCKK6 base for I777 is a steaming turd compared to UCKH7 - lots of wifi/bluetooth problems especially. A classic example of "newer is not better".

As to kernels - I'm considering attempting Daily Driver builds for I9100 once I finish patching to update3 - not sure yet though. I'd need a good trusted guinea pig to test. :)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] frottage:
Happy Christmas all Villain Rom users
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] ms.brightside:
which has the best battery life out of alll... cyanogenmod7/androidmed or ths one?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] tenkaishy:
I know it is going to sound as a noob question, but why am I not able to put Jkay mod. When I install it from CWM it makes an error (something Status 7) and aborts the install.

Sorry for this noob question,

thanks
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
This. I put a message on the homepage last night, but forgot to do the rom threads.

Merry Christmas everyone
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] CamoGeko:
Merry Christmas mate! :D

Best wishes to you and everyone else here on XDA.

Communicated from a Galaxy far far away via an XDA premium neurotransmitter while DJ'ing on The Enterprise.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] emilcioran99:
Merry Christmas to you all!

Thanks Pulser for this amazing VillainRom and we wait for ICS VillainRom! :)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] xgrind:
Deleted.....
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] kmax.pt:
When ICS version Pulser? :)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] ms.brightside:
Is this rom focusing on to give you a better battery life...? :S
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] AvRS:
When a stable version has been released as they're all buggy alpha builds not worth bothering with at the mo. VR is all about stability and I'm sure VR4 will be just as great as this version.

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] AvRS:
Stability first and foremost but does give good battery life.

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] dryspuri:
hey pulser, i love ur work, but will u be kind enough to let us know how to remove battery percentage from battery, because i am turned off by all these roms & themes with percentage on there battery, i hate it. please help me
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
Hi, this rom doesn't have one. If you do see one, just re-flash the ROM to remove any themes you applied
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] zzloo:
ninphetamine 2.0.5
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
What was your question again?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] khartaras:
Here's an interesting read on the Android version updates, Pulser:

http://www.peteralfonso.com/2011/09/blah-blah-blah.html
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
Yup quite interesting. I believe there were other minor changes, but I don't recall specifics, and they were particular to only one device... I recall powervr graphics driver security patch in possibly 2.3.6
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] tenkaishy:
Can someone tell me how to install jkay? Coz everytime i try to install it in cwn it tells me error status 7, even after reflashing many time the rom. how am i suppose to do this plz?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] crachel:
just to make something clear (a little pet peeve of mine ;) ), 2.3.6 is listed as "Voice Search bug fix" this is misleading and pretty much 100% inaccurate. The i9020a Nexus S has a hardware bug that causes the capacitive buttons to fire in low 3G areas. Some devices it's the search button, other devices report the home button. Google pushed 2.3.6 to address this and FAILED MISERABLY at solving it. It has absolutely nothing to do with the Voice Search app. The only reason the blogs called it this is sometimes the search button would fire so much, it would trigger a "long-press" event and Voice Search would open (since so many have this as the default app for that event).

So, it was the button NOT the Voice Search app and THEY DID NOT FIX it.

/end rant
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
Nice rant :D
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
What kernel (and thus cwm) are you using?